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2007-11-28, 23:01

Has any one else notice Safari constantly hanging since upgrade to Leopard? I used to have to force quit it once a week, not I am having to do this 5-10 times a day.

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2007-11-28, 23:08

I've been using Safari as my primary browser since installing 10.5 (on 2007-10-31) and I've actually had zero hang-ups or crashes from it since.

Do you have any Input Manager plugins or other third-party modifications installed?

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2007-11-28, 23:14

Brad, do you seriously never even crash when loading pdfs into the browser from a web page?
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2007-11-28, 23:18

Not in the past month, at least. I deal with PDFs fairly regularly at my job (although certainly not daily) and I can't recall the last time one (or anything else for that matter) caused Safari to crash.

Maybe I'm just really lucky?

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2007-11-29, 00:43

I've hardly ever had Safari 3 crash either (under 10.5/10.5.1), even when it was beta (10.4.10).
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2007-11-29, 04:03

I've had stalls for a few seconds here and there (seven according to the HangReporter folder), and a few crashes as well (five since the Leopard upgrade, according to the CrashReporter folder), but sadly, for browsers, that's hardly out of the ordinary.
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2007-11-29, 05:22

No safari crashes here on Leopard. Maybe you should stop visiting crappy websites?







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2007-11-29, 05:46

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Has any one else notice Safari constantly hanging
Thats nothing. Mine tells racist jokes.
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2007-11-29, 07:56

Safari 2 crashed on digg every time I clicked a story - very annoying.

Safari 3 puts up a 'bad script' prompt, but it still takes forever and slows wayyy down.

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2007-11-29, 08:08

Yes! Safari has been crashing several times a day since I upgraded to Leopard.
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2007-11-29, 08:52

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Brad, do you seriously never even crash when loading pdfs into the browser from a web page?
Safari crashes occasionally for me, but never while loading a pdf. Not once ever actually.

I guess it goes to show that people have drastically different experiences with particular browsers. Quite interesting really. It's like we're all browsing a different internet.
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2007-11-29, 12:45

Yep, Safari has been exceptionally buggy for me since installing Leopard. I have to force quit it two to three times a day. No third party input managers or haxies at all. Mail has had a nasty penchant for blowing up and crashing too.

This third one I won't necessarily blame on Apple, but MS Office is poorly behaved as well spawning null threads from hell and those have nasty loops that make the CPU race, everything else slow down and the fans kick up to ear-splitting levels in about ten whole seconds. At least those are killable, but it's annoying.

I have been hitting report often hoping that 10.5.2 will restore a little reliability to my tortured Leopard experience.
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2007-11-29, 13:36

I'm using the Safari 3 included in 10.4.11 and while it seems to load pages faster and is generally better than its predecessor for other reasons (longer history, cache doesn't grow to 750 MB, etc.), I have experienced more occasional, inexplicable crashes than I did in 10.4.10.
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2007-11-29, 13:41

It's been fine for me, both in 10.4.11 and 10.5/10.5.1.
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2007-11-29, 14:00

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It's been fine for me, both in 10.4.11 and 10.5/10.5.1.
Xaqtly. er, I mean "exactly". Me too.

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2007-11-29, 14:22

Fine for me too on 10.4.11.

Could it be that some sites are just coded not Safari friendly and conflicts causing the program to crash?
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2007-11-29, 15:34

While using Safari on my mini Core Duo 2GB of RAM it not only crashed on this one site but cause the whole Mac to restart without notice. WTF running 10.5.1
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2007-11-29, 15:40

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While using Safari on my mini Core Duo 2GB of RAM it not only crashed on this one site but cause the whole Mac to restart without notice. WTF running 10.5.1
Third-party RAM?
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2007-11-29, 16:15

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No safari crashes here on Leopard. Maybe you should stop visiting crappy websites?
I have been trying to figure out if it is certain website that cause it to crash (actually indefinitely hang with the spinning beach ball). It happens almost never on my Duo MBP but almost alwasy on my Quad--could it be the PowerPC vs. Intel chip issue?

Also, the websites that crash a lot are:

CNN
ESPN
Amazon
WSJ

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2007-11-29, 17:45

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Third-party RAM?
Yeah from OWC, everything else runs solid though.
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2007-11-29, 18:01

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Yeah from OWC, everything else runs solid though.
An app can't cause the whole machine to reboot, though. There must be something awry hardware-wise.
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2007-11-29, 23:23

Any suggestions, hardware test? I really haven't noticed and abnormal behaviors with the system outside of this. I can tell you the site I was visiting was the Fox networks website. and I was watching some Full TV episodes.

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2007-12-09, 18:53

Just wondering whether anyone has the install file for 2.0. I have deleted it, and now I can't install 3.0b without it!
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2007-12-09, 19:57

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Just wondering whether anyone has the install file for 2.0. I have deleted it, and now I can't install 3.0b without it!
Huh? Safari 3.0 is officially out of beta now. If you are still on 10.4, it should be included as part of 10.4.11.
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2007-12-10, 05:00

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Huh? Safari 3.0 is officially out of beta now. If you are still on 10.4, it should be included as part of 10.4.11.
Yeh but I deleted it. And you need the presence of 2.0 in order for it to install properly. And now, even when I reinstalled 2.04 off of the disks, 3.0 still says it can't install.

Apple.com doesn't say its out of beta.
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2007-12-10, 09:16

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Yeh but I deleted it. And you need the presence of 2.0 in order for it to install properly. And now, even when I reinstalled 2.04 off of the disks, 3.0 still says it can't install.

Apple.com doesn't say its out of beta.
Are you saying you cannot run the 10.4.11 combo installer?

Safari 3 is only in beta for Windows users. For Mac OS X users, the final version of Safari 3.0 ships with 10.4.11 and 10.5.0.
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2007-12-10, 11:28

I have 10.4.11. I had Safari 3. I deleted Safari (don't ask) and then I tried to reinstall it. Safari 3 needs Safari 2 to install. So I tried reinstalling Safari 2.0 from the disks that came with my laptop. However, when I try to install 3.0b that I had, it says it can't install on this volume!
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2007-12-10, 15:28

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I have 10.4.11. I had Safari 3. I deleted Safari (don't ask)
I won't ask if you do answer why installing the 10.4.11 combo update on top of what you have right now won't do that trick.

…I'm still curious, though.
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2007-12-10, 15:42

Installing a whole OS update just to get one browser back seems pretty ridiculous.
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2007-12-10, 16:34

I am really starting to have problems with Safari in the past 24 hours. I noticed certain websites are constantly crashing it like Amazon.com and CompUSA.com on my Quad (G5) but not my MBP (Duo). So it has to be something specific with my Quad. Any suggestions. Can I just download it from Apple and copy it into Applications folder--will it over write? Or should I delete some of the preference files?

I am using 3.0.4 (5523.10).

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